U+CFA9 "쾩" Hangul Syllable Koeg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CFA9 "쾩" Hangul Syllable Koeg is a Korean syllable block representing the sound "koeg," which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range that systematically encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean writing system, and it is used in written Korean to transcribe a specific phonetic sequence that may appear in vocabulary or loanwords. Like other Hangul syllables, its design reflects the modular and logical structure of the alphabet, where individual jamo characters are stacked and arranged into a single square block for efficient reading and writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+CFA9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Koeg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쾨" U+CFA8 Hangul Syllable Koe
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쾩
HTML Hex Encoding 쾩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBE 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCFA9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CFA9
C/C++/Java Escape \ucfa9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter